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By: Aeschylus
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1961
Seller ID: 394117
ISBN: 0140441123
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By: Aeschylus
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: April 2013
Seller ID: 395414
ISBN: 0226311473
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Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1959
Seller ID: 351527
ISBN: 0140440852
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Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1959
Seller ID: 357668
ISBN: 0140440852
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Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1959
Seller ID: 345139
ISBN: 0140440852
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By: Apuleius
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Publisher: Indiana University Press: June 2005
Seller ID: 385154
ISBN: 0253200369
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A frank and vivid modern version of one of the most diverting of all classics. Lindsay's translation captures the genuine flavor, sharp dialogue, outrageous humor, racy delight and subtle style of Apuleius' sophisticated masterpiece.
By: Aristophanes
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Publisher: Plume: May 1994
Seller ID: 334721
ISBN: 0452007178
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Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter--and thought.
This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and The Cl...By: Aristophanes
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Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 2007
Seller ID: 376478
ISBN: 0140449698
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By: Aristophanes
Price: $1.95
Publisher: Dover Publications: October 1994
Seller ID: 382229
ISBN: 0486282252
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First presented in 411 B.C., this ancient comedy concerns the efforts of Lysistrata, an Athenian woman, to persuade other women to join together in a strike against the men of Greece, denying them sex until they've agreed to put down their arms and end the disastrous wars between Athens and Sparta.
When the strike begins, and the men respond, the comedic battle of the sexes that ensues makes this spirited play one of the most enjoyable of the classics. In it, Aristophanes employs a mixture of shrewd logic and raffish humor that fully exploits the rich comic potential of the story and ...
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By: BASIL DAVENPORT
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Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1977
Seller ID: 362050
ISBN: 0140150560
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By: Carson, Anne
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Publisher: Faber & Faber: March 2010
Seller ID: 395473
ISBN: 086547916X
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In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -- A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophokles' Elektra and Euripides' Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon, Klytaimestra exacts a mother's revenge, murdering Agamemnon and his mistress, Kassandra. Displeased with Klytaimestra's actions, Apollo calls on her son, Orestes, to avenge his father's death with the help of his sister Elektra. In the end, Orestes is driven mad by the Furies for his bloody betrayal of family. Co...
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By: Charles W. Eliot
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Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son: January 1909
Seller ID: 377126
ISBN: B000HHXBFC
Binding: Hardcover
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By: David Grene; Richmond Lattimore
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press: February 1992
Seller ID: 342443
ISBN: 0226307905
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Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son: January 1909
Seller ID: 389722
ISBN: B000ESRQSM
Binding: Hardcover
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Price: $11.95
Publisher: P. F. Collier: January 1910
Seller ID: 389727
ISBN: B0012PKZ3O
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By: Euripides
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Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 2003
Seller ID: 340524
ISBN: 0140449299
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By: Euripides
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Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1963
Seller ID: 341929
ISBN: 0140441298
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By: Euripides
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press: February 1955
Seller ID: 368344
ISBN: 0226307808
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By: Euripides
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Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 1998
Seller ID: 376522
ISBN: 0192824422
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By: Euripides
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: February 1992
Seller ID: 378163
ISBN: 0226307948
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